Notes from the Randall County Democratic Convention:
- Sign in seemed to go fairly smoothly.
- Convention called to order by county chair Jim Otto. Jim, and many of the other usual suspects, have that same deer-in-the-headlights look about them mentioned by spacedark in his post below. How many people typically turn up to these things? A couple dozen? There were around 200 Saturday night.
- A few precincts challenged the allocation of their delegates and asked to redo their math. There was some confusion about how to handle this, but the situation was eventually resolved and resulted in mostly a lot of groaning and eye-rolling.
- Someone gave a nice speech. I forgot his name. I think he was a poli-sci professor from WTAMU.
- Alternates are elevated to delegate status. Two alternates from our precinct were no-shows, but two alternates were available to take their place. Again, more confusion as to the best way to handle this.
- We elect delegates to the state convention. blogarillo (Obama camp) runs against the precinct chair (Clinton camp). Vote is strictly down candidate lines, 8 Hillary to 4 Obama, so blogarillo is an alternate. This was expected.
- Delegate selection is over and the Nominations Committee goes to work on divining the at-large candidates.
- The convention is told there are three more speakers and then we vote on resolutions that will be taken to the state convention and the at-large candidates. The crowd gasps, "Three more speakers?" It's about 9:00 pm. There is a mass exodus of people.
- Another speaker takes the stage. Again, I have forgotten the name. He was running for office.
- Dr. Russell Long takes the stage. Another good speech.
- Roger Waun, congressional candidate for TX 13, talks to the crowd. Roger ran for office a couple of years ago, but this is the first time I've heard him speak. I really like his style.
- Paul Matney took over to guide voting on the resolutions to be taken to the state convention.
- At 11:00pm, somewhere in the middle of the resolutions, blogarillo throws in the towel and heads for home. Yes, democracy is messy. Yes, I should have stayed, but I needed dinner and bed and could take no more. I hear the convention lasted until about 1:00am.
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